A co-operative farm chief once honoured by North

China is to expand the use of lethal injections to replace execution by shooting

Uzbekistan abolished the death penalty on January 1, 2008.

in South Korea, six inmates on death row had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment

Iran hanged 13 convicted criminals, including the mother of two young children who had been found guilty of murdering her husband after discovering he was having an affair, reports said.

South Korea marked its 10-year moratorium on the death penalty as activists called for the

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for a 17-year-old schoolboy over the murder of his younger friend.

authorities in the northern Nigerian state of Kano rejected Amnesty International's recent accusation

the Inter American Court on Human Rights ruled that Barbados should abolish its

“The hard work starts now. Its like signing a contract, now you have to apply it,”

the Arab press largely ignored the news on the UN General Assembly's non-

''It is a success for everyone that, for 14 years, every day, in their own way